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Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 971854, 5 pages
doi:10.5402/2012/971854
Research Article

Study of J-E Curve with Hysteresis of Carbon Nanotubes Field Emitters

Shama Parveen, Samina Husain, Avshish Kumar, Javid Ali, Harsh, and Mushahid Husain

Department of Physics, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi 110025, India

Received 7 June 2012; Accepted 15 July 2012

Academic Editors: J. Escrig, G. Jin, and A. Kajbafvala

Copyright © 2012 Shama Parveen et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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